Posted on 06/20/2018 6:29:08 PM PDT by huckfillary
If your kids don't know these things, it's time you seriously considered educational alternatives for your child. And please don't say you can't afford it, because you can't afford not to. If you love your children, take them out of public school, find a good private/parochial school, homeschool, or simply keep them at home. They'll learn a lot more watching Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune than spending seven hours in a government-run holding tank for the children of dysfunctional parents.
Below are subject matters that my peers and I learned between the ages of 10-17. These issues and facts were taught during the 60s and 70s. Minorities had no problems learning these things. Why do they have problems with them now ? It's called the "soft racism of low expectations."
Ask your children or grandchildren these questions. If they can't answer a good many of them, your children are the victims of child abuse.
QUESTIONS
Who invented the cotton gin?
The steamboat ?
The electric lightbulb?
Movable press?
The reaper?
The sewing machine?
Vulcanized rubber?
Can you identify all 50 states from a map of the United States? And name their capitals?
Can you diagram a sentence?
Do you know the rules governing the use of "less vs. fewer?"
Can you quickly recite the multiplication tables? Like, right now.
Can you discuss the significance and meaning of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and U.S. Constitution?
Can you name five major figures of the Renaissance? The Enlightenment?
On which date was Julius Caesar assassinated?
Could you identify most of the countries on a map of the world ?
Can you briefly discuss the early American settlements at Plymouth and Jamestown? What drew these early settlers to risk life and limb to come here?
Can you name the major battles of the War of Independence? Which war preceded the War of Independence that, in fact, helped set the stage for the War of Independence?
Can you prove that a triangle is 180 degrees?
Can you prove that alternate exterior angles are equal?
Can you name the formula of the Pythagorean Theorem?
Can you name the formula of Einstein's theory of relativity?
Can you cite the four rights enshrined in the First Amendment?
Can you name your Natural Rights? HINT: There are three.
Do you know the rules of punctuation, grammar, and syntax, i.e. the King's English---the correct use of quotation marks, when to use a semi-colon instead of a comma, the rules of capitalization, etc. ?
Can you name the seven continents?
Can you the name seven parts of speech?
Can you name the seven auxiliary verbs?
Do you know the "rule of three" in mathematics?
Have you read any of the following---A Tale of Two Cities, any Shakesperean plays, Oliver Twist, Wuthering Heights, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Last of the Mohicans, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Little Women, Scarlet Letter, The Red Badge of Courage, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Democracy in America ? If not, can you at least name the authors of these classics ?
Do you know the difference between a peninsula and isthmus?
Can you briefly discuss the Protestant Reformation, Counter Reformation? Can you name the major players of these historic periods?
Who is Charlemagne and why is he important? On which day was he crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor and what was the name of the crown?
Can you discuss the Age of Discovery? Columbus, Pizarro, de Leon, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Magellan, Balboa ? What can you say about these conquistadores and explorers?
Can you identify at least five major figures of the Enlightenment ? Can you identify the generally accepted years during which the Enlightenment took place? What was the significance of the period? Explain its impact on our own history?
Our country is routinely called a democracy. This is soooo incorrect. Our Founding Fathers loathed the idea of democracy, likening it to the "rule of the mob." Which term correctly describes our form of government?
What is a synonym? An antonym ? A homonym?
Do you know when to use there, their, and they're ? Your and you're ?
Do you know the formulae for converting Fahrenheit to Celsius and vice versa?
Can you name the planets? In order of their distance from the sun ?
Can you name the oceans ?
What was the first battle/act of aggression in the War of Northern Aggression (i.e. Civil War) ?
Can you name the Great Lakes ? In order of size ?
I could go on and on. But these are just the basics of grammar, mathematics, and history that all of us were required to learn while attending school in the 60s and 70s. Minorities were required to learn these things, and did. I don't recall any minorities struggling with these things. If they are, it's termed the "soft racism of low expectations."
He was some Kid Steely Dan sang a song about.......lol.
You didn't read the named books, ergo you didn't go to any "good schools" and your family, who should have read at least read/bought you some of them abrogated their responsibilities.
A whole LOT of the stuff mentioned in the article, is what you should have learned by the time you graduated from high school and some of it, by the time you entered middle school.
Or what year was The War of 1812?
Is that am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, do, does, did, have, has, had, may, might, must, can, could, shall, should, will, would?
Or :WHO IS BURIED IN GRANT’S TOMB? ;^)
“And public schools are preparing them for jobs bagging groceries for college educated Indians and Chinese.
And to join Antifa”
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You’re getting desperate——good for a laugh,though.
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No offense meant, but I’m conservative, I read non-fiction, not fiction.
of your reading list I have read The Red Badge of Courage (had to unfortunately)
Toga-robed people are eating salad, asking "Who made the salad?"
Caesar, standing alone, proclaims "Caesar made the salad!"
Knives come out as the diners rush him.
you do realize that the Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation (which were a disaster by the way).
I do not believe that you may surmise that Mr. Huckfillary is stupid
His larger point is that they were taught nothing of "The Fall Of The Roman Empire", a lesson worth remembering in these days of palace intrigue.
Winter is coming.
1912 Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt County Schools [Kentucky]
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Here’s the exam with the answers included...
https://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912ans.html
Worked just as well in Europe. < /SARC>
I tried to help someone out on here about less/fewer and was labeled a grammar N*zi.
It’s quite likely he did not have one at the time he came up with Special Relativity. He was still a patent examiner, a low-level bureaucrat. And it was only 1905. And probably likely he didn’t have one by the time the final version of General Relativity was published 11 years later.
Wasn’t too long ago, can’t remember if it was Texas A&M, or maybe Vanderbilt, the liberal/progressive president of the school removed the cotton from the school emblem.
After public schools their best career option is probably MS13.
+1. Don’t forget the occasional vanity.
I was missing “had” and “being”————this was fun,and amazing the things that stay in our minds.
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Julius Caesar was out on a date? Did Mrs. Caesar off him?
It isn’t that you can remember a date of an assassination——
It is that you can train your brain to remember ANYTHING.
A friend had a daughter who didn’t get good grades in a majority of her classes. I asked her WHY? Girl said—”I never can remember anything”. I am talking about a junior in high school who couldn’t do multiplication tables in her head. NONE AT ALL. Couln’t make change for paper bills.
BUT-—then the radio in the car came on with a BRAND NEW country song, which she knew every single word & note of.
I pointed that out to her-—that she could remember songs, but not her lessons. I told her-—YOU CAN REMEMBER-—you just choose NOT TO. She didn’t talk to me for days.
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